Cornuthaum said:
Something that has been plagueing me for years (at eighteen months, that is)
I once read a SW fic, AU-ish, that had Emperor Luke Skywalker succeeding the recently departed Emperor Vader and receiving an "ambassador" from the Rebel Alliance in the form of Mara Jade.
It was, by all means, not an action-y fic, more of a socio-political piece as Luke (very slowly) works through Mara Jade's onion-like layers of distrust to show her both his and his father's plan - partially subverting the fascist Empire from within to combat the inevitable onset of stagnation by opening political negotiations w/the Rebels.
And that'S the last piece I remember, about halfway through the fic, then my firefox crashed and lost all tabs / bookmarks, and I never found it again.
I once read a SW fic, AU-ish, that had Emperor Luke Skywalker succeeding the recently departed Emperor Vader and receiving an "ambassador" from the Rebel Alliance in the form of Mara Jade.
It was, by all means, not an action-y fic, more of a socio-political piece as Luke (very slowly) works through Mara Jade's onion-like layers of distrust to show her both his and his father's plan - partially subverting the fascist Empire from within to combat the inevitable onset of stagnation by opening political negotiations w/the Rebels.
And that'S the last piece I remember, about halfway through the fic, then my firefox crashed and lost all tabs / bookmarks, and I never found it again.